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<blockquote data-quote="RadioSaigon" data-source="post: 1269478" data-attributes="member: 161927"><p>I too wanted -and did- a clean install. Mine was quite straight-forward and I now have a bootable image of Lion on an external HDD partition.</p><p></p><p>My desire may be rooted in the old Windows paradigm, but also flavoured with more than a little hard-nosed pragmatism. Since this is my 1st Mac, I have experimented with several different software offerings for various tasks. Some have not survived more than an hour, others have lasted longer until superseded by others better suited to my needs, or more capable. The clean install has allowed me to free-up whatever disk space the legacy detritus of those failed experiments has left behind. Additionally, choosing the clean install option allowed the creation of the bootable image on an easily portable external, freeing me of any concerns re internet access availability, download speeds or anything else, should I need to recover my installation at a time inconvenient in the future. How many threads have you seen from people OS without their installation disks in need of a reinstall???</p><p></p><p>Like <strong>TattooedMac</strong>, I have no problem with the OP's query at all. I don't care how easy the installation is <em>via</em> the App Store over SL -if internet access is difficult or slow, that's a moot point. Whatever the reasons or motivation for requiring a clean install, the short answer is, it is achievable, quite easy if a little time-consuming and in my personal opinion, sensible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadioSaigon, post: 1269478, member: 161927"] I too wanted -and did- a clean install. Mine was quite straight-forward and I now have a bootable image of Lion on an external HDD partition. My desire may be rooted in the old Windows paradigm, but also flavoured with more than a little hard-nosed pragmatism. Since this is my 1st Mac, I have experimented with several different software offerings for various tasks. Some have not survived more than an hour, others have lasted longer until superseded by others better suited to my needs, or more capable. The clean install has allowed me to free-up whatever disk space the legacy detritus of those failed experiments has left behind. Additionally, choosing the clean install option allowed the creation of the bootable image on an easily portable external, freeing me of any concerns re internet access availability, download speeds or anything else, should I need to recover my installation at a time inconvenient in the future. How many threads have you seen from people OS without their installation disks in need of a reinstall??? Like [B]TattooedMac[/B], I have no problem with the OP's query at all. I don't care how easy the installation is [I]via[/I] the App Store over SL -if internet access is difficult or slow, that's a moot point. Whatever the reasons or motivation for requiring a clean install, the short answer is, it is achievable, quite easy if a little time-consuming and in my personal opinion, sensible. [/QUOTE]
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